01899cam a22002777 4500001000700000003000500007005001700012008004100029100002100070245010200091260006600193490004200259500001500301520074300316530006101059538007201120538003601192690006601228690005701294690005701351700001901408710004201427830007701469856003801546856003701584w15090NBER20150802171918.0150802s2009 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aDeaton, Angus S.10aLife at the toph[electronic resource]:bthe benefits of height /cAngus S. Deaton, Raksha Arora. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc2009.1 aNBER working paper seriesvno. w15090 aJune 2009.3 aAccording to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index daily poll of the US population, taller people live better lives, at least on average. They evaluate their lives more favorably, and they are more likely to report a range of positive emotions such as enjoyment and happiness. They are also less likely to report a range of negative experiences, like sadness, and physical pain, though they are more likely to experience stress and anger, and if they are women, to worry. These findings cannot be attributed to different demographic or ethnic characteristics of taller people, but are almost entirely explained by the positive association between height and both income and education, both of which are positively linked to better lives. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web. 7aD6 - Welfare Economics2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aI10 - General2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aI30 - General2Journal of Economic Literature class.1 aArora, Raksha.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. w15090.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w1509041uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w15090